Framing the Dialogues : How to Read Openings and Closures in Plato.

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 'Where Are You Going and Where Have You Come From?': The Problem of Beginnings and Endings in Plato -- Chapter 2 Frame and Frame-Breaking in Plato's Dialogues -- 1 Metalepsis in Plato -- 2 Single-Level Dialogues: Rhetorical Metalepsis. The Charmides and Republic 1 -- 3 Multi-Level Dialogues -- 3.1 Metalepsis at Discourse Level -- 3.1.1 Rhetorical Metalepsis: the Protagoras, the Symposium, the Phaedo -- 3.1.2 Two-tier Reported Speech: the Parmenides and the Symposium -- 3.2 Metalepsis at Story Level: the Euthydemus and the Phaedo -- 4 Conclusions -- Chapter 3 Paradoxical Proems: On the Relationship between Διήγησις and Μίμησις in Plato's Dialogues -- 1 Introduction* -- 2 Matters of Fact -- 3 Plato's Paradoxical Proems -- 4 The Primacy of Διήγησις? -- 5 Philosophical Μίμησις -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 The Prologue of the Charmides -- Chapter 5 Elenctic Aporia and Performative Euporia: Literary Form and Philosophical Message -- 1 Drama and Argument -- 2 Socrates' Performance as a 'Dramatic' Commentary -- 3 Dead End and Openness -- 4 Frame and Openness -- 5 'Read the Text Again' -- 5.1 Protagoras -- 5.2 Euthyphro -- 6 Aporetic Ending and Fictitious Chronology -- 6.1 Fictitious Chronology -- 6.2 Euthyphro -- 6.3 Apology -- 7 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Leisure, Philosophy and Teaching in the Protagoras -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Opening of the Protagoras -- 3 The End of the Protagoras -- 3.1 Thematic Links -- 3.2 Lexical Links -- 4 Leisure, Philosophy and Teaching -- 5 Inner Frame -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 7 Justice as Happiness : Republic and Its Proems -- 1 Proems as Parts: On the Method -- 2 The Whole and Its Proems -- 3 First Word(s) -- 4 First Scene -- 5 First Book -- 6 First Part.

7 Preludes of a Whole -- Chapter 8 Eros from Plato to Comedy: The Lysis and the Early Reception of Plato's Beginnings -- 1 Poetry in the Lysis -- 2 The Opening of the Lysis -- 3 Plato's Poetic Catnip and Alexis' Phaedrus -- 4 Conclusions -- Chapter 9 Eros in the Platonic Frame -- Chapter 10 'Were You There Yourself?': The 'Dialectics of the Body' In Plato's Phaedo -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Phaedo -- 2.1 Narrative Frames and Emotions -- 2.2 The Socratic Body in the Phaedo -- Chapter 11 The Necessity of Writing: The Introduction of Plato's Theaetetus -- 1 Introduction* -- 2 The Frames of the Theaetetus and the Idea of Plato's Absence -- 3 Plato Dramaticus and His Audience: Reading Theaetetus from the Beginning -- 3.1 The Outer Frame -- 3.2 The Inner Frame -- 4 Theaetetus' Frames in (a Platonic) Context -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 12 Chance Encounters and Abrupt Endings: On the Preludes and Closures of Plato's Third Thrasyllan Tetralogy -- 1 The Question* -- 2 Preludes and Closures as Literary Techniques -- 3 A Broader Perspective -- Chapter 13 The Introduction to Plato's Parmenides: What Does It Introduce and to Whom? -- 1 Introduction* -- 2 Why This Structure? -- 3 The Chain of Narrators -- 4 Serious Philosophers -- 5 Zeno's Book -- 6 Practice, Not Memory -- 7 The Search for Arguments -- 8 Clazomenae -- 9 Conclusion -- Chapter 14 The Prooimion and the Skopos: Proclus' Commentary of the Alcibiades i -- 1 Proclus on the Role of Prooimia -- 2 Proclus on the Skopos and its Relationship to Prooimion -- 3 Alcibiades i: Self-knowledge -- 4 Alcibiades i: Love -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index Locorum.

Framing the Dialogues: How to Read Openings and Closures in Plato focuses on the intricate and multifarious ways in which Plato frames his dialogues, with a view to exploring the complex association between framework and philosophical content.

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